SUPERSTAR TRADESMEN AND WINDOW PAINS February 1, 2011 THE Premier League is still catching its breath following the hysteria of Monday’s record-breaking £135m deadline day. But as the dust settles on a historic end to the January window, we look at the winners and losers. Who has injected fresh impetus into their flagging squad, and who looks likely to rue the business they [...]
CITY MOVES | WHO’S SWITCHING JOBS January 25, 2011 RSM Tenon The seventh largest accountancy firm has named accountant Peter Musgrave as head of its enlarged London office. RSM Tenon has brought together teams from four offices into the central London location in Chiltern Street in the West End and created a 450 strong team covering all the Group’s services. Peter previously ran the [...]
SKY NEWS BITES THE HAND THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BE FEEDING IT January 24, 2011 SOME puzzling editorial choices have been afoot at Sky News this week. On Sunday, Gordon Brown’s disclosure that he asked the police to look into whether his phone was hacked by the News of the World topped its agenda all day. And yesterday the attack of foot-in-mouth disease that afflicted Sky Sports’ Andy Gray and [...]
What the other papers say this morning January 23, 2011 FINANCIAL TIMES AUDITORS SEEK TO EASE FEARS The four biggest auditors have denied that their dominance of the market for large companies had created a systemic risk akin to that posed by the leading banks. Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG and PwC have told the European Commission that they are willing to help draw up [...]
Loan row threatens West Ham Olympic bid January 20, 2011 WEST HAM’S bid to move into the Olympic Stadium was plunged into controversy last night after questions were raised over a £40m loan being arranged by Newham Council. The loan would be at a preferential rate and would provide the cash-strapped club with vital funds for redeveloping the venue, if it is chosen ahead of [...]
PROPERTY NEWS January 20, 2011 HYDE PARK PROPERTY FLOURISHING Over 55 per cent of the mega-luxe, much-hyped Hyde Park development the Lancasters (competing with the even-more hyped One Hyde Park), has been sold in advance of its opening in June, making developers Northacre the second best performing retail stock in Europe. Klas Nilsson, Northacre’s chairman, puts this down to “a [...]
How to rob your bank January 19, 2011 SANTANDER has brought back its switching deal, giving new customers £100 when they move their main current account to its offering which pays 5 per cent interest for the first year. However, the bank has been voted worst for customer service in a string of surveys by organisations including Moneywise, MoneySavingExpert.com and consumer group Which? [...]
WEST END FESTIVE HIGH DESPITE SNOW January 16, 2011 Christmas shoppers defied the December snow to boost December sales in London’s West End by 3.8 per cent year-on-year. New West End Company, which represents 600 retailers on Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, said there was a huge sales increase in the final days before Christmas and in the end of year sales.
Spurs boosted as Olympic chief stays out of stadium row January 13, 2011 TOTTENHAM have been handed a boost in their bid to move into the Olympic Stadium after Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), ruled out intervening in the escalating row. Rogge, one of the most powerful men in world sport, had hinted he would actively oppose Tottenham’s plans to tear down the [...]
Tottenham’s plans to demolish Olympic Stadium would save club cool £200m January 12, 2011 TOTTENHAM hope to save around £200m by tearing down the Olympic Stadium and building a new ground in its place, if they see off West Ham in the battle to move to the site after the London 2012 Games. Spurs want to scrap the track at the Olympic venue and deliver an athletics legacy by [...]